StrypeyForget all the silly candidates in this year's local body elections, at last there are some serious contenders;
Te Weta 🏴☠️Israel is driving civilians out of Gaza City at gunpoint. Hospitals bombed. Homes flattened. Families forced south into overcrowded death traps. This isn’t “security.” This isn’t “self-defence.” It’s annihilation.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/17/idf-try-to-force-civilians-out-of-gaza-city-as-ground-offensive-continues
And New Zealand government? Stop pretending we’re clean. You are complicit.
You blacklist Hamas wholesale, but you can’t bring yourself to name Israel’s crimes — war crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide.
You slap token sanctions on two cartoon fascists (Ben-Gvir, Smotrich) while the entire Israeli state machine wages collective punishment on 2 million civilians.
You wave $37m in “humanitarian aid” like hush money, while refusing to condemn the bombs that made the rubble in the first place. Aid doesn’t wash blood off your hands.
You hide behind the ICJ and ICC — “let the courts decide” — as if international bureaucracy will comfort a child buried alive in a collapsed school. That’s spineless cowardice dressed up as diplomacy.
You still trade: NZ imported US$178 million of Israeli goods in 2024, much of it high-tech, dual-use hardware. Blood-soaked kit, flowing into our ports.
You exported US$16m back — wine, pharmaceuticals, electronics — smiling, shaking hands, “business as usual” while Gaza starved.
You bought bomb-clearing robots from Israeli firm Roboteam in 2019. Our Defence Force has not ruled out buying Israeli-made drones. Direct military links. No denying it. Why?
You keep hosting Israeli diplomats, playing nice in the halls of Wellington, while Israel bulldozes entire neighbourhoods and commits countless war crimes. Why?
This is not “small trade.” This is not neutrality. This is enabling. Every dollar exchanged, every contract signed, every polite silence is complicity.
New Zealand Government: stop polishing your halo, stop pretending you’re bystanders. Admit it. You are enabling a genocidal state.
And don’t think history will let you off. It doesn't work like that. History and the people will remember the excuses the blood and the children.
So explain yourself!
#NZGovtExplain #Genocide #Gaza #Palestine #WarCrimes #StopComplicity #NZPolitics #BloodOnOurHands #NZpol
One of the biggest problems with local government in Aotearoa is that central government have devolved a whole lot of responsibilities to them, without passing on sufficient funding to fulfill them. So they either need to hike rates, increase council debt, or both. Or cut services.
A lot of this is effectively creative accounting by govts. Moving public spending and debt onto someone else's balance sheet, so their own books look healthier come election time.
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I'm mystified by Takuta Ferris doubling down on his attacks on non-Māori Labour members supporting their party's candidate. What could he possibly think he's going to achieve with this?
Ferris has numerous things to apologise for. Let's go through a few of them.
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"If National want to go into the next election with some breathing room, families need to stop feeling the squeeze. That means growth, jobs, and rates relief."
#JamesRoss, #TaxpayersOnion, 2025
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/572447/coalition-loses-power-in-new-political-poll
The patient is bleeding out! The only thing that's going to save them is more bloodletting 🤦♂️
Mike BoonI've sent a letter to the government. Well, three of them.
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"I wonder how long it will be before they [the government of the day] go apeshit and use it to open another front in their racist hate campaign against Māori? And will ACT, who back in 2003 claimed to be the "party of property rights" and opposed retrospective expropriation, support or oppose a racist law change?"
@norightturnnz, 2025
https://norightturn.blogspot.com/2025/08/foreshore-and-seabed-30.html
*Exactly* what I've been wondering, get out my head! : P
It seems that "productivity" is the new "efficiency" for the corporatists and their reputation laundering machine;
https://newsroom.co.nz/2025/01/31/how-to-help-nzs-productivity-problem/
Having shut down the Productivity Commission and ignored its findings ...
... and handed the power to determine what productivity means and how to boost it back to Treasury ...
... the NatACTs and their Winston First hangers-on are using it to mean whatever suits their agenda.
The Agender KiwiYet again David Saymour proves he is a sack of shit in human form. First it was the crusade against the indigenous Māori, and now the removal of voting rights for the newly of age. Next it'll be the voting rights of the poor or something.
Fuck David Seymour, and fuck ACT.
https://www.maoriparty.org.nz/govt_steals_voting_rights_from_100_000_people
Because the idiots over in National want to import the culture war into my home country, we have to deal with this shit now, instead of... Oh I don't know? Fixing the Public Transport Infrastructure (and making #AucklandTransit suck less)? Reducing the Price of Butter? Fixing Roads? Literally anything else?
No, let's agonize over if English or te reo Māori is at the top of the passport
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